Ah springtime. Longer days to walk, take pictures of flowers as they come out, and sit on the bench at the park and sketch in the teeny tiny little sketchbook I could not resist at the dollar store. I hope everyone is well and happy and ready for this growth time of year. Enjoy.
BOOKS
WHEN AGAIN THIS WAY I WALKlindagigliottiwriter.com – Linda M. Gigliotti’s writings:
The lives of 1870’s Julia and modern Andie touch as each in her own time faces relational issues common across the ages as times change and people do not.
Reviews
Linda Gigliotti’s novel, When Again This Way I Walk, invites readers into the lives of two families, living in the same location but a century apart. The dual-timeline story begins when Andie gazes into the forest and experiences a life-like vision of a woman and girl of previous time. Throughout the story, we follow Andie, her family, and the choices and decisions each must make and the parallel issues that Julia and her family cope with. With touches of mystery and illusion, Gigliotti deftly alternates between eras to reveal how the lives and issues of these two women, and perhaps all of us time unto time, face similar challenges, experience the same joys, and struggle to discover our deepest truths (Judy Reeves).
-Judy Reeves is the author of Wild Women, Wild Voices: writing from your authentic wildness and A Writer’s Book of Days.
I had the privilege to be one of the first readers of Linda’s novel and from the first page I was drawn into the story and felt as if I was part of it, thanks to Linda’s extraordinary way of describing the scenery and the characters. A beautiful story about life, love, family, traditions and friendship with a twist of mystery and suspense. Linda sends you on a journey between the past and the present, reminding you that life is about being curious and courageous.
- Tina Mundelsee is author of Yoga Coaching: use your practice to resolve emotional baggage, master your mind & create harmony in your life & relationship and Think Happy, Be Happy – A Yoga Coaching Pocket Guide. As well Tina is life coach at www.tinastools.com
I just finished reading When Again This Way I Walk. I loved it. It’s so funny I have thought these very thoughts myself. You are so right, the sun will keep rising and settling long after we have danced our lives across the earth and it has risen and set long before we took our first breath. So many experiences, interactions, memories. What wonderful story. Bravo to you.
– Jackie Wilkinson, avid reader
HOWMASTER: THE WRITER’S GUIDE TO BEAUTIFUL WORD
CRAFTING – Revised Editionlindagigliottiwriter.com – Linda M. Gigliotti’s writings
OTHER GREAT READS
Check out Judy Reeves’ new memoir WHEN YOUR HEART SAYS GO(She Writes Press 2024)and others at
https://www.judyreeveswriter.com/ . Judy also wrote Wild Women, Wild Voices (NWL 2015), a book for those of us who must write and do it well. Check out Judy’s A Writer’s Book of Days (NWL 1999) for some great daily writing prompts.
Julia Cameron’s latest, The Daily Artist’s Way: 366 Meditations for Creative Living, released in 2025. Julia is the author of The Artist’s Way series which changed many writing lives. I use this book every day and love it.
NOTEBOOK SAYS
The long writing sabbatical is over despite a moment of panic when I could not find my work in progress notes (WIP). They were in the file cabinet where they stuck their tongues out at me when I pulled out the folder. This time I will do the same as I did with When Again This Way I Walk, and work one page at a time. It does not work when we try to pre-empt the entire book in one sitting.
The bones of a work have to be loose enough to accommodate new ideas but not if we try to cram those together without writing treatment. Pages accumulate that way as one idea leads to the next.
Prompts:
- What happened that day you spent alone.
- What was the crow telling you when it sat on your balcony rail and would not stop making all that racket.
- What you found when it was time to do the monthly turnaround with the sofa cushions.
- A black car drives past the house three times after which it slows and its lights dim. A few minutes later come popping sounds and the car speeds away. Someone knocks at your door.
- The dog howls every time it walks past that spot. What is he trying to tell us?
ART CORNER
Floral paintings became rote after awhile and so it is that I thought to pull out my watercolour pencil sketches from close to a decade ago and replicate those onto watercolour paper. No pencil lines, only brush strokes.
Karen Abend’s Sketchbook Revival 2026 is officially on the calendar starting April 11, 2026. Check it out at https://www.karenabend.com
If you have a favourite art site you would like me to add to this newsletter, let me know.
Until next month,
Linda Gigliotti
lindagigliottiwriter.com 